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Dabbawala receives a PhD

Updated on: 06 February,2011 07:07 AM IST  | 
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Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi, Chairman of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) Amarjit Singh Manhas, and an ex-dabbawala Bijay Kumar were among those who received their PhDs at the annual convocation of the University of Mumbai today.

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Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi, Chairman of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) Amarjit Singh Manhas, and an ex-dabbawala Bijay Kumar were among those who received their PhDs at the annual convocation of the University of Mumbai today. Joshi (74) got his doctorate for the study of his own party: Shiv Sena.

The rather long title of his thesis: Analytical study of the birth, growth, nature and structure, successes and failures and future of the Shiv Sena. Manhas, who is also a treasurer of Mumbai Congress, received a PhD for his thesis, Study of voting behaviour in Mumbai's northeast constituency election from 1984 to 2004.

Bijay Kumar Maharana (40), a graduate from Utkal University in Orissa, who worked as a dabbawala for a couple of years after coming to Mumbai in 1995, got a doctorate for the thesis, Yoga, a hidden medicine. Maharana said it was the confidence and will power his father instilled in him that helped him get here. Since 2007, he has been giving yoga lessons to cancer patients at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai.




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